INTRODUCTION:

Teleology

Teleology has the basic meaning of "the study of ends or purposes." A teleologist attempts to
understand the purpose of something by looking at its results.

Explanation:

A philosophy of teleology sees purpose in ends rather than started causes, making the outcome the
actual, or “final cause’. When you see things in terms of teleology.

DEFINITON:

-This is the study of teleology.

It comes from the word telos which means inherent purpose think about circuit board everything comes
together to perform a specific function a specific purpose Is the world like that all these pieces.

Come together to fulfill or purpose or do they come together by chance and maybe they’re just
something results should be a clear distinction of something that was the result of a mind and
something that was not the result of a mind result of mind and not just any mind but the greatest
imaginable mind the god of the universe should look drastically different from something that just came
together by chance think about the most complex circuit board with a purpose to something that just
results by chance that’s what we’re going to study is this world super complex or is it not complex could
it have come together by chance.

EXAMPLE:

Ethics Explainer: Teleology - THE ETHICS CENTRE

Teleology comes from two Greek words: telos, meaning “end, purpose or goal”, and logos, meaning
“explanation or reason”. From this, we get teleology: an explanation of something that refers to its end,
purpose, or goal.

- Thus, in teleological ethics, consequences drive the moral decision. Ex: most people believe that
lying is wrong but if telling a lie would do harm and help to make a person happy or save
someone.

-Aristotle claimed that an acorn’s intrinsic telos is to become a fully grown oak free.

Aristotle- that things develop towards the realization of ends internal to their own natures but of
viewing biological organisms.

Immanuel kant- Kritik der Urtheilskraft (1790; Critique of Judgment) dealt at length with teleology. While
acknowledging and indeed exulting in the wondrous appointments of nature, Kant cautioned that
teleology can be, for human knowledge, only a regulative, or heuristic, principle and not a constitutive, a
guide to the conduct of inquiry rather than to the nature of reality.